Brank enscott



Sept. 6; 1932. F7 ENSCOTT 1,876,405

SIGN, NAME PLATE, OR THE LIKE FiledF-eb. 15, 1932 g I (3 r {4 r (l a vi In I ll, a

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FE-nacol'! Patented Sept; 6, 1,932

FRANK'ENSCOTT, OF TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA SIGN, NAME PLATE, on THE LIKE Application filed February 15, 1932.. Serial No. 592,908.

This invention relates to signs, and name plates of the type used particularlyon the radiators of motor vehicles and consisting of the name of a city or town. These signs or plates are usually made up in a single unit,

that is, the letters are all on a single plate or are integrally connected together. This is quite a practical arrangement for the names of the cities and larger towns, but in the case 1 of the smaller places where the sale is very limited it would hardly pay to go to the expense of making the special patterns or dies required.

My object therefore is to devise a sign which may be readily built up from individual stock letters and thus avoid the necessity of providing special patterns or dies for the making of an integral sign.

I attain my object by means of the constructions hereinafter described and illustrated in the accompanying drawing in which Fig. 1 is a front view of part of an automobile radiator showing my improved sign 1 in place;

Fig. 2 a sectionthrough part of the radiator; and

F i 8 a rear view of part of the sign with the radiator omitted.

In the drawing like numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in the different figures.

1 indicates part of an automobile radiator. The sign comprises a series of individual 517 letters 2, from the rear face of each of which extends a threaded post 3. These posts extend through the air passages of the radiator and each post has a nut 4- set up thereon. The

v posts are preferably secured to the letters so that when the sign is complete the posts are arranged in a straight liner As stated above, each letter is provided with only a single post, and there would be a possibility of the letters turning relative to one another and to avoid this I provide special means for holding the letters in alinement.

I therefore form the posts 3 with flattened portions on opposite sides, (see Fig. 3) and provide an alining bar 5 having slots 6 therein of the same width as thenarrow portions of the posts. As there would be a tendency for the sections of the alining bar at opposite sides of the slot to spread intermediate the ends of the slot, instead of'one long slot the alining bar is provided with a series of short slots, the unslotted portions tending to prevent any increase in the width of the slot.

- The alining bar, it will be seen, thus holds the separate letters in proper horizontal alinement and also prevents any rotary movement of the posts.

It will thus be seen that I have devised a sign comprising individual letters which will satisfactorily attain the object of my invention. It will also be evident that numbers or other symbols may be mount-ed in a similar manner. I

l Vhile I have described the sign in particular reference to use with automobile radiators, it will be evident of course, that the letters may be mounted in any other suitable support. 7

What I claim as my invention is z 1. In a sign, the combination of a plurality of separate symbols each having a single threaded post extending from its rear face, a nut on each of said posts, and a slotted alining bar through which said posts extend, said posts, having flattened portions at opposite sides engaging the sides of the slot.

2. In a sign, the combination of a plurality of separate symbols each having a single threaded post extending therefrom, a nut on each of said posts, and a slotted alining bar through which said posts extend, said posts having flattened portions at opposite sides engaging the sides of the slot.

Signed at Toronto, Canada, this 10th day of February,19.32. p

FRANK ENSCOTT. 

